Quick introduction to the Citation Style Language (CSL)

Quick introduction to the Citation Style Language (CSL) Jakob Voß Verbundzentrale des GBV (VZG) Lightning Talk proposal European Library Automation Group Conference May 2010

Bibliographies & Citations
Solved again and again and again
in various reference management software
in library software presentation layers
Zillions of citation styles
Best open standard: BibTeX. Which sucks!
@book{nelson1987, edition = {87.1}, title = {Literary machines}, isbn = {0-89347-055-4}, publisher = {Mindful Press}, author = {Theodor Holm Nelson}, year = {1987} } T.H. Nelson, Literary machines , Mindful Press, 1987. Nelson, T.H., 1987. Literary machines edition 87.1, Mindful Press. Nelson TH. Literary machines . 87. ed. Mindful Press; 1987. Nelson, T.H. Literary machines . (Mindful Press: 1987). Bibliographic Data Nicely formatted

Citation Style Language (CSL) CSL processor citation style (in CSL) bibliographic & citation records bibliography & citations

CSL Styles
Described in the CSL 1.0 specification
Huge Zotero stylesheet repository (CSL 0.8)
Mendeley (et al) work on WYSIWYG editors http://bitbucket.org/csledit/csl-wysiwyg-editor
 <macro name="container-contributors"> <choose> <if type="chapter"> <group delimiter=", "> <choose> <if variable="author"> <names delimiter=", " variable="editor"> <label form="verb" suffix=" " text-case="lowercase" /> <name and="text" delimiter=", " /> </names> </if> </choose> ...

CSL Processors
citeproc-js runs in Firefox and other Gecko-based browsers, Google Chrome, Safari, IE6+ & Rhino and spidermonkey/tracemonkey for server-side deployments http://bitbucket.org/fbennett/citeproc-js/
More (or less) processors:
Haskell http://code.haskell.org/citeproc-hs/
PHP http://bitbucket.org/rjerome/citeproc-php
Phython http://github.com/bdarcus/citeproc-py/
Ruby http://github.com/bdarcus/citeproc-rb/
…
Join the coders, documentors, testers!

Input formats
CSL is independent of the input serialization (currently JSON, later XML, RDF etc.)
Implied conceptual data model
Bibliographic items
name fields (author, editor, translator...)
date fields (issued, original-date...)
textual and numeric fields (title, issue...)
Citation items
references to bibliographic items
prefix, suffux, locators („see page 23“)
To be done
Map our data (MARC etc.) to CSL records
Much already done in Zotero

Output formats
CSL is independent of the markup language
Output in HTML+CSS , RTF, LaTeX, XSL-FO...
Basic formatting capabilities
indent block left-margin right-inline bold light italic SMALL -CAPS underline sup sup

Thanks and kudos to Frank Bennett Rintze Zelle Bruce D'Arcus visit CitationStyles.org

Quick introduction to the Citation Style Language (CSL)

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